Improvement in pipe and faucet-clamp



J. ELLIOTT. PIPE AND FAUGET CLAMP.

No. 85,372. Patented Dec. 29, 1868.

I ii i v nwfitatw gaunt @fii p e JA IVILES ELL]OTT,.OF NEW YORK, N. Y. Letters Patent No. 85,372, ifled December 29, 1368.

IMPRGVEMEN'I IN PIPE AND FAUCET- CLAMP.

The Schedule referred toinvthese Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may 'coigcern Be it known that I, J AMns ELLIOTT, of New York,

I in the county 'of New York, and State of New York,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pipe and Faucet-Chimps for plumbersuse and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a. full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will en-(i-ble others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which-, I 4

Figure 1 is aplzm or top'view of my invention.

Figure 2 isa side view of the same.

Similar letters of reference .indicztte corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new and improved clztinp, designed to i'ecilitatethe securing or soldering of ileucets in lead pipes, and also in forming the connections of branch-pipes to a. maip pipe.

In the accompanying sheet 'of drawings- A represents a emved-bar, having two parallel sides, e a, and an end-piece, b, the latter being at right angles to the former, as shown in fig. 1.

The ends of the sides ac, are each formed with a,

fixed jaw, c, which extends down below its side a, and has an opening in it to allow the guide-bar d of asliding jaw, e, to pass through. (See fig. 2.)

These sliding jaws e e are moved by screws, j; which pass through the lower ends of both jaws.

By means of these jaws, the bar A may be firmly clamped to the pipe g, (shown in red,) in which the faucet 71 (also shown in red) is tobe secured, the end, b, of the bar A being parallel with pipe g.

At the centre of the end-piece b there is a fixed tubnlar socket, i, in which the cylindrical tong j of a. bearing, k,-is fitted, said beaming being secured at a greater or less distance from the end-piece b, by meme-or it setscrew, 1, which passes through the socket -i, and-bears -ageinst'the tong. p v v The pipe 9 has a. hole lnmle in it at the proper or (losired place, to receive the inner part of the feucct'h, and the bar A is secured to the pipe g by means of the jaws 0 e, and-at such points that the hearing I; will be in line with the faucet.

' of branch in main pipes, inthe latter case the branchpipe resting on it hook-projection, m, on bearing 1:.

Having thus described my invention, I'clztim as "new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The curved bar A, provided with the fixed and sliding jaws c e, and the adj nstuble bearing k, all constructed and arranged substantially as shown and described, to form a pipe and t'ancet-clmnp for plumbers use, as set forth.

JAMES ELLIOTT. Witnesses:

FRANK BLOCKLEY, ALEX. F. Ronmrrs. 

